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Countries affected by the horsemeat scandal

Sapa-AFP | 20 February, 2013 08:58

Packages of Buitoni meat ravioli are pictured on display on a supermarket shelf in Madrid. Nestle has removed beef pasta meals sold under its Buitoni brand from sale in Italy and Spain after finding traces of horsemeat, becoming the latest victim of a food scandal still spreading across Europe.Image by: PAUL HANNA / REUTERS

Around 15 countries have so far been affected by Europe's spiralling food crisis, in which horsemeat has ended up in millions of ready-made "beef" meals.

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The French government has revealed a complex supply chain
passing through at least five countries: France, Luxembourg,
Romania, the Netherlands and Cyprus.

The scandal concerns some 750 tonnes of horsemeat mislabelled as
beef and sold by French firm Comigel in more than 4.5 million
frozen meals.

Britain: On February 7, Britain's food health
authorities announce that lasagne produced by processed food giant
Findus contains up to 100 percent horsemeat. Findus UK says that it
withdrew the tainted products, supplied by Comigel, in Britain on
February 4.

Horsemeat is detected in 29 products out of 2,501 tested. Three
are arrested for fraud.

France: On February 12, France becomes the second
European country to confirm the presence of horsemeat in frozen
meals. Its supermarkets pull ready-made meals from the shelves.

Comigel says it has withdrawn all products from its supplier
Spanghero, which says that the meat comes from Romania.

On February 14, the DGCCRF anti-fraud office pins most of the
blame on Spanghero. Its licence is suspended on the 14, then
partially restored on Monday.

Sweden: On February 8, Swedish retailers pull six
different brands of ready-to-eat lasagne meals, all made by
Comigel. On Monday, German distributor Lidl withdraws goulash and
lasagne containing horsemeat from the Swedish market.

Germany: On February 13, supermarket chain Real
says it has found traces of horsemeat in frozen lasagne. After Real
and Lidl, two other chains, Aldi and Kaiser's Tengelmann, say they
are also affected.

Switzerland: Swiss supermarket giant Coop says on
February 13 it has found horsemeat in its own-brand frozen lasagne
produced by Comigel.

The Netherlands: On February 11, the Dutch food
and consumer watchdog opens a probe, searching and carrying out
tests at around 140 butchers and supermarkets. On the 15, Dutch
officials suspend a meat processing plant believed to be mixing
horsemeat and beef.

Norway: On February 15, three big Norwegian food
retailers say that horsemeat has been found in frozen lasagne
dishes.

Denmark: Food safety authorities say on February
15 they are probing whether a slaughterhouse may have mixed
horsemeat into meat marked as beef that was supplied to pizza
makers. Lidl, on the 18, withdraws its Combino pasta dish from the
country.

Austria: A beef tortelloni dish distributed by
Lidl and originating in Liechtenstein is pulled from the shelves on
February 15.

Bulgaria: On February 16, the authorities order
lasagne to be pulled from a major distributor.